Academy Quote by Morgan Freeman

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

— Brad Paisley

I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not…

— Al Pacino

I didn't set out to win an Oscar, of course, but to be in this conversation, it's somehow an honour and a strange life…

— Lee Isaac Chung

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

— Conrad Hall

You don't do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn't win them.…

— Glenda Jackson

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.

— Shari Sebbens

“I think it's a great honor to win an Oscar but I think if you aim to be rewarded in your life you'll get…

— Natalie Portman

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

— Kevin Smith

I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.

— Donald O'Connor

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

— Morgan Freeman

The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the…

— Ernest Borgnine

Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it…

— Aaron Tveit